Leanne Hemming

Leanne commenced pupillage on 1st October 2024. Prior to pupillage her legal work experience included interning at Pulaski County Public Defenders Office on death penalty cases, managing the Hertfordshire Witness Service and working at the British Transport Police as a Witness and Case Review Officer. Her pro bono experience includes working with a variety of advice centres on public legal education initiatives, a caseworker for Advocate and an ambassador for Amicus.

Leanne read Law at the University of Warwick, where she won the Bar Society’s Bar Advocacy Competition. She was project leader for the Warwick Death Penalty Programme and established CLAW (Critical Lawyers at Warwick). She then studied for the Bar at the University of Law, having been awarded an exhibition scholarship by the Inner Temple. Leanne obtained a distinction in her LLM, which concerned making expert evidence mandatory in rape trials in order to reduce the influence of misconceptions surrounding rape.

Leanne has a keen interest in criminal law, especially sexual offences, as well as the intersection between criminal and public law in relation to inquests and inquiries.